Meeting with Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov, who updated the President on the socioeconomic development of the region, primarily the implementation of national projects and the creation of education clusters.

February 5, 2019

13:05

The Kremlin, Moscow

Andrei VorobyovVorobyov AndreiGovernor of Moscow Region said that 817 billion rubles
and about $1 billion of foreign funds had been invested in the fixed capital of regional companies in 2018. Economic zones and industrial parks have been
established with all the needed infrastructure. Medium-sized agricultural
companies, in particular in the dairy and cheese sectors, receive subsidies for infrastructure development. This is why investments have increased by some 15
percent. More new jobs will be created in 2019, the Governor said.

Mr Vorobyov said he had received letters addressed
to the President from the companies Daimler and Mercedes.
The German businesses have quickly built a passenger car plant in an industrial
park in the Solnechnogorsk District and plan to open it in April. It is the first Mercedes plant not only in Russia but also in Eastern Europe. The plant
will roll out some 40,000 cars of four models annually. Mercedes is working
closely with the colleges that will train personnel for the plant.

When the President mentioned an attractive idea
of education centres, Andrei Vorobyov told him about the plans to establish two
education centres for pupils from the Moscow Region and other parts of Russia,
which would be modelled after the Sirius educational centre in Sochi. The first
project provides for the expansion of the PhysTech School of the Moscow
Institute of Physics and Technology in Dolgoprudny, with the number of students
growing from 600 to 1,500. The second project has to do with the popular
Primakov humanities school. Both projects are in the advanced stage of preparations.

With Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov.

The Governor also updated the President on the opening of a bridge across the Volga River in Dubna, where the Joint Institute
for Nuclear Research is located, in late 2018. The bridge leads to the Dubna
Free Economic Zone, which has been expanded by 35 hectares because investors
bring their money and jobs are highly paid there.

Other issues discussed at the meeting include
the plans to build a general children’s hospital and the construction of an oncological block as part of the Healthcare national project, which will
promote preventive examination and diagnosis at the early stages of the disease.